Wes Colley’s final rankings, as submitted to the BCS, were incorrect. The Appalachian State-Western Illinois FCS playoff game was missing from his data set. I will spare you some of the gory, mathematical details, but the net result of that omission in Colley’s rankings is that LSU, which he ranked ninth, and his No. 10, Boise State, should be switched.

As a result of that mistake, Palm writes, Boise State came out behind LSU in the overall rankings, at No. 11 instead of No. 10. That means if college football were using an eight-team playoff system in the name of fairness, the Broncos could have been the second team in line to protest about unfairly missing the cut.